The evidence, authorship, automation, updating, commercial, and dignity standards used across the site.
UPDATED JULY 21, 2026Statistics should link to the agency, university, research publisher, or study sponsor that produced the underlying evidence. A secondary article may supply context, but it should not replace an available original table, report, questionnaire, or dataset.
Every numerical claim must preserve its population, geography, field dates, measurement definition, and uncertainty language.
Administrative counts, weighted survey estimates, self-reports, and modeled overlaps are labeled separately. The site does not turn a survey response into transaction data or a demographic estimate into active dating-app inventory.
Causal language requires a design that supports causation. Otherwise, articles describe associations and reported differences.
Organizational articles are attributed to The Pool Report research desk and link to an authorship page. We do not fabricate a personal byline, credential, test, interview, or review.
Automation and AI may assist with data transformation, drafting, code, validation, or presentation. The publication standard is unchanged: sources must be opened, claims checked against them, calculations tested, and limitations written for readers.
A modified date changes only when the article receives a material factual, methodological, structural, or source update. Cosmetic edits do not make old evidence current.
Material errors are corrected promptly and logged under the Corrections Policy. Updates should not silently erase a conclusion that materially changed.
Advertisers, affiliates, platforms, and survey partners may not buy a conclusion, favorable comparison, omitted caveat, or undisclosed link. Paid relationships must be labeled where readers encounter them.
The current site does not load an advertising network. If that changes, this policy and the relevant privacy disclosures will be updated before launch.
The project can compare pools without declaring a gender delusional or treating a physical or economic trait as a measure of human value. Safety articles must distinguish warning patterns from accusations about individuals.
No result should be used for employment, housing, credit, insurance, healthcare, or another consequential eligibility decision.